Chapter 84: Going to the Countryside as Educated Youth in the 1970s 48
[This is a parallel fictional world. Please do not take any similarities between place names and people as they appear.]
He Fei hurried home with two double-layer lunch boxes and saw several staff officers' families weeding and planning the front yard in his courtyard.
He Fei knew that Xiao Jia must have given in for him again. He looked up and saw Xiao Jia sitting in the courtyard, holding a cup of cold tea and a watermelon, listening to Aunt Huang's nagging with a look of despair on her face.
When Aunt Huang saw He Fei coming back, she said, "Okay, that's all for today. He Fei is back, let the couple have a good time together."
He Fei took Zhang Xiaojia's hand and walked into the house. He hugged Zhang Xiaojia tightly and said happily, "Xiaojia, how come you have time to come and see me?"
Zhang Xiaojia was so annoyed by Aunt Huang's nagging that she said sullenly, "Well, I'll come to see you when I'm free. Let me go, it's so hot."
He Fei made a pendant out of a bullet and gave it to Zhang Xiaojia to wear. After pressing the button, Zhang Xiaojia immediately felt cool.
He Fei took credit and said, "I knew you were coming today, so I immediately modified the frequency of the chip so that it wouldn't sound the alarm."
Zhang Xiaojia snorted and said coquettishly, "After seeing this, I will come to see you again in the future. Otherwise, I will never come again. They are so noisy."
"If you don't like them, just close the door and ignore them."
"Forget it, they are too nagging. They don't care if it's not a matter of principle. Besides, life in the army is like this. Children call each other uncle, aunt, brother and sister when they meet. If a child is bullied, the whole compound will come out to fight. The saying that the military and civilians are one family here is not a joke." Zhang Xiaojia said helplessly.
He Fei laughed softly and said, "Let's go upstairs to eat."
Zhang Xiaojia rolled her eyes at him and said, "No, go wipe the table. A group of people will come to serve us food later."
After He Fei cleaned the dining table and the chairs, he saw several children carrying plates to deliver food to their family. Xiao Jia was handing out White Rabbit milk candies one by one.
He Fei took a look and saw dumplings, buns, egg drop soup, stewed potatoes with meat, three fresh vegetables, and two large bowls of rice.
Zhang Xiaojia threw the food that He Fei brought into the space grid.
He Fei asked, "How do you know they will deliver food?"
"They came to talk about growing vegetables this afternoon. They knew they were being unreasonable, so I backed off. They felt like they could get along, so they brought vegetables. Even if I disagreed and they got angry, their husbands would still ask them to bring vegetables when they got home. The difference is, one would have cooked vegetables, and the other would have had them brought raw vegetables."
After dinner, He Fei took her for a walk. As they walked in the family compound, He Fei held her hand. Zhang Xiaojia tried to shake him off many times, but couldn't.
He Fei held it tightly and said, "Xiao Jia, I want to declare my sovereignty and not let those blind men mess with you."
Zhang Xiaojia didn't care anymore. It wasn't her who violated the discipline, nor was it her who was to criticize and educate him.
Looking at the time, He Fei sent her back to the room and left directly back to the dormitory. They were not married yet and could not make any mistakes in their conduct.
Zhang Xiaojia also went back to the second floor to sleep. She took out a robot that looked exactly like her and asked her to clean the house inside and out.
The next day I was woken up by the army's loud military songs.
Zhang Xiaojia had no choice but to get up as he was no longer sleepy.
I made myself a cup of coffee, drank it in one gulp, and ate a rice ball.
I took out the kitchen appliance and made a pot of herbal tea.
He put the herbal tea under the eaves of the courtyard, made a note of the herbal tea, and then rode his tricycle to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy daily necessities.
Towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes, thermos, and other things needed for the home were brought back home. The weeds in the yard had been cleared. They were probably going to come and plant again in the afternoon. Zhang Xiaojia cooked some cold noodles and ate them casually.
Take out two watermelons and throw them into the well.
I went to the second floor and cleaned up a room, put a table and cabinets in it, and saw beakers, a distiller, and experimental tools.
When people are injured, they lose a lot of blood. If she could just use a bottle of blood tonic, she would like to do an experiment.
Take out the Chinese herbal medicines for blood nourishment, such as wolfberry, astragalus, donkey-hide gelatin, angelica, rehmannia root, white peony root... There are ten kinds of herbal medicines in total. Today we will analyze, experiment and decompose these Chinese herbal medicines into their components.
Zhang Xiaojia spent more than two hours experimenting and only analyzed four medicinal herbs. Zhang Xiaojia rubbed his nose and felt tired.
I went back to the house to take a nap. When I woke up, I saw Aunt Huang and the others had already come to the yard to plant vegetables.
Zhang Xiaojia was not doing experiments. She went downstairs directly and cut watermelon for them to eat.
Huang Yi laughed and said loudly, "Xiao Jia, my old man said that you don't plan to join the army, so it's better for the couple not to live apart."
Zhang Xiaojia smiled and said, "Auntie Huang, I'll go upstairs to do the experiment. After eating the watermelon, if you feel thirsty, there is herbal tea. It is suitable for drinking in summer and it will cool you down and quench your thirst."
Aunt Huang probably knew what she was talking about, so she said, "Go ahead, go ahead. We must speak quietly."
Zhang Xiaojia separated the remaining six medicinal herbs, took notes, and came out. Aunt Huang and the others had already planted the vegetables, eaten the watermelon, cleaned up everything, drank all the herbal tea, and washed the bucket.
On the other side, Aunt Huang and the others saw that there was still a lot of herbal tea in the bucket, so adhering to the principle of not wasting, each family took a big pot home.
Fang Guihua's little daughter is afraid of heat in the summer and cold in the winter. She is always sick and often suffers from heatstroke in the summer, which causes fever. She told her not to go out to play, but this little bastard didn't listen. When she returned home, she couldn't see anyone and was very anxious. When the child came back with her father, her face was not right and she cried out in a coquettish manner, "Mom, I want to drink water."
Fang Guihua handed over the cold tea in her hand, and Niuniu drank it obediently, saying, "Mom, this tea is cool and sweet. After drinking it, my chest is no longer hot."
Old Yu asked his wife, "You went to Old He's house. His wife wasn't angry, was she? I, your husband, can't afford to offend his wife's father. Don't mess with him."
Fang Guihua snorted coldly and said, "Xiao Jia is cold, but he is definitely kind and reasonable. Besides, we grow vegetables to respond to the commander's words, while Xiao Jia prepares herbal tea in the morning and puts it under the eaves, and takes out watermelon in the afternoon."
Old Yu's mouth twitched, thinking that you were not there at that time, and didn't see the way Old He's wife confronted Old Zhou and stomped on Old Zhou's daughter's face. Because of this incident, the higher-ups transferred Old Zhou away. Someone above said that Old He's marriage should not be destroyed. It was probably done by that beast Zhang Guocheng.
Fang Guihua and Lao Yu were bickering while their little daughter was drinking one cup after another. By the time they realized what was happening, their little daughter had already finished the whole pot of tea. They were still worried, but they didn't expect that there was no problem at all.
I went to Xiaojia's house and brought herbal tea home. The child was fine after drinking the tea, but those who had never drunk the tea all got heatstroke and went to the hospital for an IV drip.
Upon asking, I found out that this group of unlucky 7 or 8-year-old children were holding a sports meeting on the playground today. They were running desperately to win the first place. It was nearly 40 degrees Celsius and they were under the sun at noon. They were really seeking death.
In the entire family compound, everyone sees each other every day. Everyone knows each other's situation, but Fang Guihua's Niuniu is nowhere to be seen. How come she is fine? Aunt Huang's baby is not there either.
When I asked the next day, I found out that it was because they drank the herbal tea made by Zhang Xiaojia. Well, everyone flocked to Zhang Xiaojia's house.
Zhang Xiaojia had just matched the proportions of medicinal materials and was entering a critical moment, waiting for the machine to report to her when she heard a noise. She walked up the stairs angrily and opened the door. Regardless of whether the husbands of these people had higher official positions than He Fei, she said coldly, "No matter what you have going on? Even if the world is in chaos, shut up for fifteen minutes and let me finish the experiment. You can come in by yourselves. I don't care what you do. Just be quiet for fifteen minutes." After that, she went straight upstairs.
Since this group of people dared to come to He Fei's house, it meant that her husband had a higher official position than He Fei, and she was actually humiliated and looked unhappy.
Aunt Huang quickly explained, "Xiao Jia is not very noisy. She wants to do an experiment. Everyone, please be quiet. Xiao Jia will be down in twenty minutes at most."
Liu Xu said sarcastically, "Forget it. It seems that my old Jia's reputation is not very good. A division commander's wife dares to yell at me. It seems that she doesn't welcome us. I'd better not make trouble for myself."
After she finished speaking, she left immediately. After the others heard this, half of them also left immediately.
Those who stayed were all good friends of Aunt Huang and the others.
Zhang Xiaojia returned to the laboratory, looked at the data and recorded it.
After all the data came out, Zhang Xiaojia took a look and finally smiled. The blood tonic was successful.
With blood tonics on the battlefield, there will be no more death from excessive blood loss, and no more blood shortage due to rare panda blood. One bottle of blood tonic can handle all blood types.
Zhang Xiaojia put away the machine, put the report in his bag, and was ready to call Uncle Fang.
When she went downstairs, she saw that half of the people were gone. She didn't care and asked, "Auntie Huang, what's going on?"
"Xiao Jia, yesterday you made us some herbal tea. Our children are fine now, but their children didn't drink it. They got injections all day and are still feeling unwell. Can you give me some of your herbal tea?"
Zhang Xiaojia shook his head and said, "He's already suffering from heatstroke. Drinking herbal tea is not good for him. If the child is at home, bring him over to me for a look."
When Aunt Huang heard the old man say that this girl was young but had great medical skills that few people could match, and that her grandson had been weak since childhood, she quickly ran home to bring the child to her for treatment.
The others looked at each other, not knowing what to do, and then they saw Aunt Huang come in with her grandson and hand him to Zhang Xiaojia.
After taking his pulse, Zhang Xiaojia said directly, "This child was born prematurely, is weak, and has a bad stomach. In fact, it's because he's not getting enough nutrition and is already weak, so he won't get better."
Zhang Xiaojia thought for a moment and said, "One health pill a day for three months, and you'll be just like a normal child. The price of 50 yuan for three bottles was set by my father's old boss. I don't have any of them now, but they're at the clinic. I'll get them next time."
Aunt Huang took out 200 yuan from her pocket and said, "Give me 12 bottles. Go back the day after tomorrow and I'll ask my youngest son and daughter to go with you to get them."
Zhang Xiaojia only took 100 yuan and said, "I'll give you at most 6 bottles. A normal person only needs one bottle every 3 days."
Then they went home one by one, brought their children who had suffered from heatstroke to Zhang Xiaojia. Zhang Xiaojia first gave the children who had suffered from heatstroke a few injections and scraping. Then Zhang Xiaojia boiled some Chinese medicine and drank it down. All the children who had suffered from heatstroke became lively and energetic.
When it was Fang Guihua's youngest daughter's turn, Zhang Xiaojia laughed after taking her pulse and said with a smile, "Auntie, raising this child is more expensive!"
Fang Guihua complained bitterly, "I have three children. The eldest and the second are tough and durable, but this youngest is like a porcelain doll. If he's touched, he needs to go to the hospital. Once he's in the hospital, he might not be released for ten days or half a month. He knew he was in poor health, but he ran around all day."
Zhang Xiaojia smiled and said, "It doesn't matter whether she runs or not. She can't stand the summer heat, the winter cold even more, and the sudden changes of heat and cold in the spring. She's only okay in early autumn."
Fang Guihua nodded desperately and said, "Xiao Jia, you are absolutely right. Is there any way?"
Zhang Xiaojia said, "If you want to cure the disease, you need to bring your child to my clinic for acupuncture and cupping every day. It will take a year to cure it."
Fang Guihua fell silent for a moment.
I told her the method, and it’s up to her to decide whether she wants to be treated.
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